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Your letters: Climate change is real

-Sharon L. Narushoff, Hanover

Posted:
06/24/2014 07:35:05 AM EDT

In refuting Missy Updyke’s letter of June 19, I suggest going to nasa.org to see the large number of American scientific organizations agreeing that climate change is real and that at least most of it is likely caused by humans. The site also lists almost 200 worldwide organizations which concur.

Please read the book, available at Guthrie Library, titled “Countdown” Our Last Best Hope for a Future on Earth” (2013) by Alan Weisman, winner of the LA Times Book Prize for this achievement. This Pulitzer-worthy, eye-opening, fascinating analysis is incredibly detailed about what is happening around the globe regarding population expansion and movement, agriculture, fishing, forests, waterways, extinctions and much more. One cannot read it without realizing the gigantic role of humans in environmental quality. The author includes positive initiatives underway as well as great reportage on the gravity of the situation.

Meanwhile, a column by Mike Argento in The Evening Sun this spring revealed the American Lung Association’s grade F for York County air quality, not surprising given our population, traffic volume, weather patterns, bad habits like unnecessary idling, etc.

Therefore, why institute lawn mower races at the York Fair? This ridiculous and wasteful activity will only add pollution to the air. Someone wins a race -- what of it? Someone always does. It is not macho, cool or wise and means nothing in the larger scheme, where our attention should be focused.

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If this is a result of so-called leadership by York County officials, we really are in trouble. Please call the York County Commissioners’ office at 717-771-9964 and tell them you will boycott the York Fair unless this insanity is canceled. We humans everywhere can either stop denying climate change and stop changes, or suffer the harsh consequences of resource-gobbling, pollution-generating hubris that will also fall on future generations, not just current ones. Failure to do so will result in a lot more to worry about than the economy.